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Books, Crime, Jeffrey Toobin, Murder, New Yorker, Quote of the Day, Scott Turow
A Prosecutor's Perspective
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Akhil Amar, Constitutional Law, Jeffrey Toobin, Law Professors, New Yorker, Noah Feldman, Orrin Hatch, Politics, Quote of the Day, Sanford Levinson
We The People... Can Do Better?
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Fabulosity, Lawyerly Lairs, Media and Journalism, Money, New Yorker, Real Estate, Trusts and Estates
Lawyerly Lairs: Sixth-Year Associate Snags Seven-Figure Pad
How many sixth-year associates can afford $2 million apartments?
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Conferences / Symposia, Election 2012, Election Law, Free Speech, Law Professors, Lawrence Lessig, Money, New Yorker, Politics, Seth Waxman, Ted Olson
Politics and Money: Imperfect Together?
What should be done - if anything - about the influence of money in politics? Some thoughts from Larry Lessig, Cleta Mitchell, Ted Olson, and Seth Waxman. -
New Yorker, Quote of the Day, Theater, Violence
Quote of the Day: Is seeing Broadway shows the new ambulance-chasing?
It’s like Formula One. You want to see the car crash. We like to go to Rockefeller Center to watch the ice-skaters fall. — Carol Barbeiro, a lawyer, on why she went to see Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, the ill-fated, accident-prone Broadway musical. (Her boyfriend added: “She wants to see blood.”) -
New Yorker
ATL/New Yorker Caption Contest: In Bed with SCOTUS
The current New Yorker caption contest is legally-themed and sexually explicit, so it begs for our attention. The Nine get naughty! We couldn’t get permission to post it here, so you’ll have to click over to the New Yorker to check it out. We did a little background check on the finalists for the caption […] -
Celebrities, Clerkships, Media and Journalism, New Yorker, SCOTUS, Sonia Sotomayor, Supreme Court
SCOTUS Justice Sonia Sotomayor Has Star Power
The most recent New Yorker features a profile of the newest resident of the High Court, Justice Sonia Sotomayor. Given the tone of the piece, you might think One First Street is turning into Melrose Place. Journalist Lauren Collins describes Sotomayor as “the first celebrity Justice”: a “diabetic, a divorcée, a dental-bill debtor, a person […] -
Barack Obama, Clerkships, Federal Judges, Feeder Judges, Jeffrey Toobin, New Yorker, SCOTUS, Supreme Court
Peering Into The Crystal Ball for Obama's Judicial Picks(Plus a live chat with the New Yorker's Jeffrey Toobin)
The current New Yorker has an interesting piece by Jeffrey Toobin on President Obama’s judicial picks. Toobin took part in a live chat about the piece at NewYorker.com right now earlier today if you’re interested. (Try not to crash their website.). UPDATE: The chat’s quite interesting. Toobin reveals why he likes Justice Souter best and […] - Sponsored
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Contests, Lawyer of the Day, New Yorker
Lawyer of the Day: Larry Wood
We know many lawyers who agonize over the New Yorker magazine’s weekly caption contest, desperately hoping to come up with a gnomic, witty caption worthy of selection. But we know of only one lawyer who has managed to come up with a winning caption three times. Let us introduce you to Larry Wood, an attorney […] -
Jeffrey Toobin, John Roberts, Media and Journalism, New Yorker, SCOTUS, Supreme Court
Chief Justice John Roberts: The Elephant in the SCOTUS Courtroom?
Everyone’s a-twitter about Jeffrey Toobin’s profile of Chief Justice John Roberts in this week’s New Yorker. And with good reason. We’re not sure whether the title of the profile, “No More Mr. Nice Guy,” is meant to describe Roberts or Toobin. We’re sure you’re familiar with Toobin, the ubiquitous legal analyst whose resume includes gigs […] -
Jeffrey Toobin, Junk Email / Spam, New Yorker, Technology, Weirdness
Spam Email of the Day
If you’re a judiciary junkie who used to read Underneath Their Robes, the judicial news and gossip site that was our first foray into blogging, you may be mildly amused by this strange piece of spam. Jeffrey Toobin — legal affairs writer for the New Yorker and author of The Nine: Inside the Secret World […] -
Ann Althouse, Blogging, Donald Trump, Enron, Holidays and Seasons, Jeffrey Skilling, Maryanne Trump Barry, New Yorker, Non-Sequiturs, Parties
Non-Sequiturs: 01.02.07
* Donald Trump gives on-the-record comments to a blawg (albeit an MSM-affiliated one). The man is a total media whore. But he’s the little brother of a certain fabulous Third Circuit judge, so we forgive him. [WSJ Law Blog] (Check out the photos at right. We see a definite family resemblance. Which may or may […] -
Arlen Specter, Federalist Society, Habeas Corpus, Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, Jeffrey Toobin, Judicial Nominations, New Yorker, Senate Judiciary Committee, War on Terror, William Haynes
Senator Arlen Specter: One Heck of a Squash Player
Here’s another excellent article from Jeffrey Toobin of the New Yorker. It’s about the role played by Sen. Arlen Specter (R-PA), outgoing chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, with respect to the recent habeas corpus legislation (aka the Military Commissions Act of 2006). If you’re confused about the controversy over this legislation, which has wound […]
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Jeffrey Toobin, New Yorker, Stephen Breyer, Supreme Court, William Rehnquist
Justice Breyer at the New Yorker Festival: Some Highlights (Part 2)
Justice Stephen G. Breyer demonstrates his hidden talent for pantomime, as Jeffrey Toobin looks on admiringly. (Photo by Startraks.) This is our final post about Justice Stephen Breyer’s recent appearance at the New Yorker Festival. Prior posts are available here, here, here, and here. We highlight some of the more interesting or amusing remarks by […] -
Fashion, Jeffrey Toobin, New Yorker, Stephen Breyer
Justice Breyer at the New Yorker Festival: Some Highlights (Part 1)
“Nino, you wanna piece of me?” Justice Stephen G. Breyer and Jeffrey Toobin, at the New Yorker Festival. Photo by Startraks. Somewhat late, but better late than never: part one of the more detailed account that we promised you of Justice Stephen Breyer’s interview with Jeffrey Toobin, at the New Yorker Festival last weekend. The […] -
Jeffrey Toobin, New Yorker, Stephen Breyer, Supreme Court, Survivor
ATL to Justice Breyer: "What Kind of Tree Would You Be?"
Actually, no, we didn’t ask him that. But the question we did pose was just about as goofy. It felt sort of like Punk’d: Supreme Court Edition. First, some background. As previously discussed, this past weekend we attended Jeffrey Toobin’s interview of Justice Stephen G. Breyer, part of the New Yorker Festival. It was an […] -
Jon Stewart, New Yorker
Jon Stewart to ATL: "Yes I Read Blogs"
Yesterday afternoon, we attended a delightful event at the New Yorker Festival: an interview of The Daily Show’s Jon Stewart, conducted by David Remnick, editor of the New Yorker. Stewart was in fine form, and he “stopped the show” several times, reducing the audience to laughter so loud they had to pause before continuing. Several […] -
Gerald Shargel, New Yorker
TV, Movies, and the Mob: Some Quality Time with Gerald Shargel
We attended several other New Yorker Festival events in addition to Justice Breyer’s talk with Jeffrey Toobin (which we discussed here and here). One of these was a fascinating panel about representations of the Mafia in popular culture, entitled TV, Movies, and the Mob. The panel, moderated by Jeffrey Goldberg, was star-studded. It included the […] -
Alex Kozinski, Ann Althouse, Celebrities, Federal Judges, Jeffrey Toobin, New Yorker, Richard Posner, Stephen Breyer
A Bit More On Justice Breyer, and Judicial 'Rock Stars'
It’s another amazingly beautiful day here in New York, and we’re blogging from Bryant Park. The temperature is in the low 70’s, there’s not a cloud in the sky, and a slight breeze is blowing. Life is good. We don’t have much time — we’re about to run off to another New Yorker Festival event […] -
Jeffrey Toobin, New Yorker, Stephen Breyer
A Quick Take on Justice Breyer's Talk
We’re about to head to dinner, so we’ll write more about this later. For now, from Bryant Park — free wireless! — here’s a quick, rushed, half-baked commentary on Justice Stephen G. Breyer’s interview with Jeffrey Toobin at the New Yorker Festival. It’s always thrilling to see a Supreme Court justice in the flesh. But, […]